MED-41Private revelationAccount·St Bridget·T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
Bridget watches a soldier's judgement, sense by sense; Mary obtains him mitigation
How it happened
- Deathbed and judgement scenesA death or a judgement witnessed, one’s own included
What the soul wanted
- Teaches about the afterlifeJudgement, levels, durations, pains, helps
Evidence
- None stated in the source
Further reading
Read it in the books
| Book | Pages |
|---|---|
| SchouppePurgatory Illustrated by the Lives and Legends of the Saints — Fr F. X. Schouppe SJ, 1893 | p. 132 |
| PetriskoInside Purgatory — Thomas W. Petrisko, 2000 | pp. 35–36 |
Page numbers refer to the edition named in the source list.
The Church’s teaching on this
- Question: What happens to the soul at the moment of death?
- Chapter: Death and the Particular Judgement
- Chapter: What Purgatory Is
- Chapter: When Someone Dies
- Question: Is Purgatory a "second chance"?
What the witnesses report on this
- Theme A: Death and the particular judgementWhat the soul meets at death: the tribunal, the self-judgement, the anticipated judgement.
About the witness
Patristic and medieval stockto c. 1500 · T4 (as retold) — visions and the collections that retell them
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